{"id":8945,"date":"2019-12-29T08:07:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T05:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/?p=8945"},"modified":"2021-12-08T20:57:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:57:02","slug":"ecologically-oriented-regional-development-of-the-aral-sea-region","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/en\/event\/ecologically-oriented-regional-development-of-the-aral-sea-region\/","title":{"rendered":"1-5 April 2019. Ecologically-Oriented Regional Development of the Aral Sea Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Expert missions of the upcoming project Ecological Regional Development of the Aral Sea Region were supported by SLU-CA. These missions were aimed at meeting with representatives&nbsp;of governmental, scientific, private business and civil society to conduct consultations to further develop scenarios for the upcoming regional project. The drying-up of the Aral Sea is one of history\u2019s worst environmental disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, BMZ received a request from the Government of Uzbekistan\u00a0to resume and strengthen its financial and technical assistance, \u00a0particularly in Karakalpakstan*. As a follow-up on this request, BMZ commissioned GIZ to send an expert mission to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Aral-mission-9-2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in order to explore options for such a trans- boundary \u2013 viz. regional \u2013 project, which will involve the two riparian countries and possibly also Turkmenistan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Aral-mission-9-2.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Aral-mission-9-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The mission was composed of representatives from GIZ\u2019s Planning Department and SLU-CA (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan). It met with representatives from the government and other national and international interlocutors at national and sub-regional levels in Tashkent, Nukus*, Nur-Sultan, Kyzylorda and Almaty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The objective of the mission was to develop and propose to BMZ scenarios for a regional four-year project on&nbsp;the sustainable development of the Aral Sea region, starting in 2020. Based on its results, an initial concept* of&nbsp;the project was created with the following outputs: 1) Strengthening the capacity of authorities and institutions&nbsp;for integrated development planning, 2) Providing geo-information about the Aral Sea region in high-temporal resolution as a basis for planning, 3) Improving the advice on sustainable resource usage, 4) Introducing cooperation formats for cross-border development planning (economic cohesion), 5) Piloting integrated, climate-friendly and environmentally sound approaches to resource management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*Abbreviations\/Explanation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Karakalpakstan<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 is an autonomous republic within Uzbekistan. It occupies the whole northwestern end of Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nukus<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 the capital of Karakalpakstan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The initial concept\u00a0<\/strong>has not yet been coordinated with BMZ, and hence represents only a tentative version.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","countries":[109],"annum":[103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/8945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/countries?post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"annum","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landuse-ca.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/annum?post=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}